Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — Hoosier News Briefly Told [ARTICLE]

Hoosier News Briefly Told

Kendanville—Boston Somerldtt of Angola committed suicide by drinking poison. Nashville. —Schools in Johnson and Vanßuren townships have been closed because of smallpox. Logans port.—A suffrage demonstration will be held here May 2 as part of the National association’s plans. Winchester.—Twenty cases of scarlet fever are reported at the James Moorman Orphans’ Home near here. Covington.—Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Minniek have just celebrated their seventy-second wedding anniversary. Mitchell.—Thre Lehigh Portland Cement company will build a cottage here for the captain of the Salvation Army corps. Evansville. —Farragut Post, A. R., has indorsed the candidacy of Thomas B. Buskirk of Paoli for commander of the department of Indiana. Ilutton.—Mrs. Mary Penman, fiftyfour years old, committed suicide by Jumping into a well. She left a note saying she was a “bother to everybody.” Aurora. —The explosion of an oil lamp started a fire which destroyed the large poultry house belonging to Hallie C. Driver, principal in the pub- ■ lie school here. 1 Jeffersonville.—The building committee of the St. Lucas German Reformed church has accepted plans for a new building at Maple and Walnut streets toncost $25,000. : - Tvansvfrie.—Jack Williams, colored, a bartender, w'hose skull was crushed with an ax by Homer Goggens, another negro, is dead Goggens is charged with first-degree murder. Columbus.—C. P. Cole, custodian of the Masonic Temple here, went to a surgeon eight years after he struck his right elbow on a projection and found the elbqiv was out of place. Hammond. —Three tons of live hogs were consumed in flames In a fire which destroyed the farm of Edward Yates, a stock raiser, near Lowell. Standard Oil tanks near by were endangered by the blaze. Insurance covers the loss. Shelbyville.—Mr. and Mrs. John Yalrlng escaped injury when their machine skidded and went over a ninefoot embankment. Mrs. Enos Porter suffered a bruised back when her husband drove his automobile into a bridge, wrecking the machine. Princeton. —Willie Waldo, twentyfive years old, a professional pickpocket, who was sentenced to the reformatory from here and is free, pending appeal, is in this city seeking affidavits of physicians. He is helpless from paralysis and hopes to escape the prison term. Marion.—Lewis Davis, agent for the Terre Haute Brewing company here, pleaded guilty to a "blind tiger" charge in police court, and was given a fine of SSO and a sen- | ter.ee of 30 days in jail by Mayor Batchelor. V > Nashville. Dr. and Mrs J. G Ward celebrated their golden wed ding anniversary at their home, near Needmore. Mr. Ward is seventy years old and his wife forty-five years. He has been a practising physician 37 years. Winchester. —Judge James S. Engle sentenced four young men to serve from one to eight years in ! the penitentiary for petit larceny.* | The prisoner§''~are James Turnbolt, | John C. Wilkinson, Oscar and John j Taylor, who pleaded guilty. They were arrested several weeks ago after entering the drug store owned by Thurman E. Porter at Parker City Rochester. Mrs. Anderson Yost, seventy years old, had a narrowescape from death here when she : attempted to rescue a number of cattle from a burning barn, The structure was struck by lightning. Mrs. Yost escaped with a few burns and is now under the care of a physician. The loss amounted to $1,500. None of the cattle was saved. I Marion. —Lilly Meeks, recently eonvicted\ by a jury in police “court on a “blind tiger” charge, fined SSO and sentenced to 30 days in jail, withdrew her notice of appeal to the circuit court and will pay the fine and serve the sentence. Velan Bow--ser, who was fined SIOO by Mayor Batchelor for Illegal selling of whisky at the Patterson drug store, was fined SSO by a jury in Circuit court, to which he had appealed. Rochester. —The body of Elmore Davis, sixty-one years old, who committed suicide, lay in his room in this city until the county coroner, returned a verdict. Davis returned recently from Oklahoma. w l here he hid spent 12 years and improved 160 acres of land. He blew off the top of his head with a shotgun. Members of his brother’s family, over whose store he lived, hbard the shot, but did not investigate until several hours later. * Columbus. —Albert G. Colter, who was serving a 190-day jail sentence here for robbing the mercial hotel of jewelry and clothing i few weeks aW escaped. Shortly iefore Colter was brought here for Irial he was convicted on a petit larceny charge in the Johnson circuit sourt at Franklin, but his sentence of from one to eight years to the Indiana reformatory was suspended. Jasper.—Mike Kripskey, w-ho said he stole a watch, intending to sell it to buy food, was sentenced to from one to eight years in the Jeffersonville leformatory.

Seven armed men entered the Fima National bank at Elma, In southwest W ashington, made a prisoner of the caehier and escaped with about three thousand seven hundred dollars. * * * Col. George W. Goqthals is now governor of the Panama canal zone. In conformity with his own wishes no ceremony marked the occasion. Colonel Goethals issued his last circular as chairman of the isthmian canal commission and his first circulars as governor, promulgating a permanent form of government in the zone. * * • Opposition to the passage of administration anti-trust bills, and particularly the federal trade commission bill, is voiced in the report of a specßLl committee of the chamber of commerce of New York. The report recommends that no legislation likely to disturb business conditions be enacted at the present session of congress. * * * The New York Chamber of Commerce has received the draft of a resolution asking the president and congress to move slowly in the matter of trust legislation. * * * Mexican Revolt American ranchmen who arrived at Eagle Pass, Tex., from the Mexican interior reported that the constitutionalists under General Murgia had repulsed federal reinforcements under Colonel Acosta trying to enter Torreon. Colonel Acosta is said to have commanded about nine hundred men. * * * General Francisco Villa has been wounded in his bitter attack on Torreon and forced to retire from the battle line, according to a report from Chlhauhua.